Released June 18 , 2004 in the US.
Filmed entirely in California.
Based on truths.
The story : 1973 , Joshua Tree , California.
26-year-old musician Gram Parsons has just overdosed in his room at the Joshua Tree Inn.
A woman spending time with him and freaking out that he is dead makes a frantic phone call to Gram's best friend and road manager , Phil Kaufman.
Phil instantly begins setting in motion a plan that stemmed from a pact between the two friends.
The pact is that when one of them dies , the other is to burn his friends body in the desert of Joshua Tree...
Phil cannot give up on this pact and will not.
Without telling anyone about what he is up to , Phil rents a hurse that comes along with a driver who happens to own the hurse, steals Grams body from an airport where Gram's stepfather is to pick it up and proceeds to get Grams' body out to Joshua Tree.
The pact proves to be not an easy task , causing much confusion and chaos , but Phil perserveres.
Stars Gabriel Macht , Danielle Sapia , Johnny Knoxville , Jamie McShane , Robert Alan Beuth , Marley Shelton , Christina Applegate , Scott Adsit , Sara Arrington , Mary Pat Gleason , David Caffrey , Alexa Sheehan , Wesley Mann , Jim Cody Williams , Kay E Kuter , Michael Shannon , Robert Forster
Directed by (& story co written) David Caffrey
Rated PG13
HISTORY/COMEDY/DRAMA
"Oh. Okay. It's a 200 hundred dollars worth of surprise?"
"No. No. No. It's more of a 50 dollars surprise."
